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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENNETT BERNSTEIN, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,307, dated January 3, 1899. Application filed September 8, 1893- Serial No. 690,492. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENNETT BERNSTEIN, of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Shirt, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a shirt such as that patented by me June 22, 1897,No.584,979; and the object sought is to construct a shirt as economically as possible and at the same time to reinforce the material, and thus produce a durable article.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claims define the actual scope of the invention.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front view of the shirt with a portion broken away. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on the line a 4: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a two-part view showing the right and left hand front sections of the sleeves. Fig. 6 is a view illustrating the single back section of the sleeves, and Fig. '7 is a two-part view illustrating the right and left hand reinforced portions for the sleeves.

The body of the shirt is constructed of a single piece of goods forming a front a and a back I), as described in the patent referred to above, such piece of goods having the neckhole a and front opening (1 formed therein, and armholes e are formed in the body of the shirt. The back portion of each sleeve is formed of an integral piece of goods of the form shown in Fig. 6. This piece of goods comprises a middle portion f, that is laid over and sewed to the upper portion of the back I) and end or sleeve sections g, which are extended beyond the respective sides of the shirt to form the backs of the sleeves. The front sections iof the sleeves have the form shown in Fig. 5 and are joined to the edges of the parts g, the inher portions of the front sleeve-sections i being extended inward to overlap the front a of the body of the shirt, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1 and as shown in section by In the back of each sleeve is placed Fig". 0. one of the reinforced sections 70. (See Fig. 7.)

These reinforced sections is run throughout the lengths of the sleeves, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4:.

A shirt thus constructed will employ a minimum amount of stock and will secure a maximum degree of strength and durability, it bein g seen that the sleeves are reinforced at the back to prevent wearing at the elbows, and it being also seen that the garment is reinforced across the shoulders by the part f. A further reinforcing is effected by the overlapping of the front sleeve-sections 2' on the front a of the body of the shirt. The shoulder of the shirt is cut with a downward slope, as indicated in Fig. 1, which causes the shirt to fit more readily and easily on the person. This downward slope is also formed in the section of the garment shown in Fig. 6, where the slope is indicated in the upper edges of the sleeve-sections g.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A shirt having a body with a front and a back portion, a back sleevesection, the middle part of which is secured across the up per portion of the back of the shirt-body, and the end portions of which are extended beyond the shirt-body to form the backs of the sleeves, front sleeve-sections the inner portions of which overlap the upper part of the front of the shirt-body to reinforce the same, the front sleeve-sections being joined to the edges of the back sleeve-section to complete the sleeves, and back reinforced sections for the sleeves, such reinforced sections being respectively laid in the backs of the sleeves.

2. A shirt, having a body, a single sleeveback section extending across the back of the body and fastened thereto, and having its end portions projected beyond the body to form the backs of the sleeves, and two sleevefront sections joined to the edges of the ends of the sleeve-back sections and having their inner ends overlapping the edges of the body at the armholes, to reinforce the body at such points, said sleeve-front sections terminating at each side of the throat.

BENNETT BERNSTEIN.

Witnesses i .lno. M. BITTER, F. W. HANAFORD. 

